13 Alfinetes
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
2026
Portugal
61’
Miracles still happen. At least, so they say… What is the place of the sacred in the contemporary world? Returning to a myth that haunts us—the myth of Saint Anthony of Lisbon (and also of Padua)—through Goya’s timeless painting, 13 Alfinetes is a story of love, revenge and blood. It begins with a re-enactment of an episode said to have taken place in medieval Lisbon, filtered through 18th-century cosmopolitan Madrid, and flowing back, once more, to Lisbon today, where miracles, in truth, do not happen.